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18 February 2018

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

9.0 |
Loud And Quiet

In both content and delivery ‘English Tapas’ is reminiscent of John Cooper Clark at the tail end of a cheap amphetamine binge. And I mean that in a good way. It’s bleak, tough and funny. Like life
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9.093796

9.0 |
The Digital Fix

A confident stride into the mainstream that doesn’t threaten to lose the bite of it's predecessors
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8.093725

8.0 |
PopMatters

Sleaford Mods call their music "electronic minimalist punk-hop rants for the working class." On their newest album, they are as aggressive, unpolished, and totally unapologetic as ever
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8.093983

8.0 |
The Observer

For the most part it’s business as usual, which means Williamson venting his anger at everything from neoliberalism to the NME website
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8.094037

8.0 |
Rolling Stone

With echoes of the Fall and Throbbing Gristle, the stark tracks fittingly recall an era that demanded engaged art
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8.093792

8.0 |
State

People are fed up with the same old shit, and right now no one is sounding quite like Sleaford Mods
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8.093445

8.0 |
Mojo

Sleaford Mods have sifted the debris of what was once Britain and out of this raging adversity created English Tapas, a brilliant piece of art. Print edition only

8.0 |
Uncut

8.0 |
Q

Hitting so many nails so squarely on the head, yet leaving ample scope for confusion and rumination, Sleafoord Mods' success will only escalate further from here. Print edition only

8.093448

8.0 |
The Independent

These dozen visceral tableaux of modern life are shot through with flashes of gallows humour and offhand absurdity that tempers the overall vision of a “newborn hell” peopled by “dumb Brits
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8.093572

8.0 |
The Skinny

Sleaford Mods are already one of the oddest British bands in this fraught political era. With English Tapas, they continue to push the case that they’re also the most necessary
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8.093599

8.0 |
music OMH

This comes through not only in the lyrics but in their delivery. Williamson has occasionally deviated from his usual half-rapping half-speaking style into actual singing, but never to the degree that he does here
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8.093710

8.0 |
The Guardian

7.9 |
Pitchfork

On their first full-length for Rough Trade, the clattering duo Sleaford Mods remain bards of a Great Britain that is not in fact great, but sloppy, self-important, and wholly lacking in taste
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7.793621

7.7 |
Paste Magazine

If anything has changed for the band, it’s that they’re sounding more musical. The repetitive bass lines and faux-snare lock together into something more like a groove
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6.093703

6.0 |
The Irish Times

Perhaps that’s the biggest problem with English Tapas: with the rat-tat-tat repetition of the soundtrack, there is enough material to enjoy, but little to inspire
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6.093714

6.0 |
NME

Never stop being p**sed off guys – because it just sounds far too excellent when you’re in a mood
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6.093573

6.0 |
The Arts Desk

Maybe it’s time for a musical rethink, but any report of the duo’s demise is a wild exaggeration
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6.093823

6.0 |
DIY

A band who divide opinions while being unflinching in their own
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